In our first exhibition of the year, CHARLIE SMITH LONDON is pleased to offer a unique opportunity to view our gallery artists and
key collaborators in context. Gallery Director Zavier Ellis states:
“In some ways a gallery artists show is a pretty dull and unimaginative thing to do. But, on the upside it enables our audience to
digest our stable in context. We are mostly a painter’s gallery, albeit with a curatorial emphasis that embraces every medium when
appropriate. The artists we exhibit are technical, but this is nowhere near enough in itself. You will find that each one of them
makes work with an intense emotional, philosophical or psychological charge, and so their work operates in a challenging,
profound way.
These artists are lateral thinkers who know that the trajectory of history is not as linear as is often presented, and that everything
operates in a complex, non-hierarchical, interconnected way. Embracing doctrines and tendencies from the modern and
postmodern periods, as well as near and deep history, they conduct their investigation without irony or sentimentality, but rather
with positive affirmation, intelligence and deliberation.
Added to the gallery artists in this show, we have invited others with whom we collaborate regularly, who work in paint, pencil,
charcoal and installation. So in actual fact, a potentially dull and unimaginative idea becomes an intriguing and engaging
proposition. This is not for everyone, but those that get it will be rewarded for their conviction.”